Managing Vim plugins [closed]

What's the best way to manage Vim plugins? Some plugins use Vimball, but I read somewhere that it was seriously broken, and manually dropping each plugin into ~/.vim/ results in a mess of files that are near impossible to update or organise. Is there a plugin-manager for Vim that functions similarly to Linux package managers? Or can plugins be reorganised into their own directories to make administering them easier?

Solution 1:

There is a new splendid tool, vundle, found here : https://github.com/gmarik/vundle

It is Awesome, like a wedding of pathogen with git.

Solution 2:

To reorganize plugins in their own directories, pathogen is quite popular.

See a blog post detailing the installation or a Vimcast from Drew Neil.

This is what I actually use. It basically puts each plugin in its separate directory, so you can easily add or remove them.

Solution 3:

I personally prefer vim-addon-manager: it installs each plugin into separate directory, is able to download and update them. Documentation of vim-addon-manager contains some references to related projects, you may also want to try them.